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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (philosopher, politician and former President of India) - 1954
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (physicist)- 1954
Chakaravarti Rajagopalachari (statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activist) - 1954
Bhagwan Das (Independence activist, philosopher, and educationist)- 1955
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Civil engineer, statesman, and Diwan of Mysore) - 1955
Govind Ballabh Pant (Independence activist) - 1957
Dhondo Keshav Karve (Social reformer and educator)- 1958
Jawaharlal Nehru (Independence activist, author and former Prime Minister of India)- 1955
Bidhan Chandra Roy (physician, political leader, philanthropist, educationist, and social worker)- 1961
Purushottam Das Tandon (Independence activist) - 1961
Zakir Husain (Independence activist)- 1963
Pandurang Vaman Kane (Indologist and Sanskrit scholar) -1963
Rajendra Prasad (Independence activist, lawyer, statesman, scholar and former President of India)- 1962
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Posthumous) (Independence activist and former Prime Minister of India) - 1966
Indira Gandhi (politician and former Prime Minister of India) -1971
Kumaraswamy Kamraj (Posthumous) (politician and former Tamil Nadu chief minister) 1976
Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) (founder of the Missionaries of Charity) - 1980
Varahagiri Venkata Giri (Independence activist and former Prseident of India) -1975
Vinoba Bhave (Posthumous) (Independence activist, social reformer) -1983
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Independence activist) -1987
Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar (Posthumous) (Social reformer) -1990
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (anti-apartheid activist) - 1990
Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran (Posthumous) (actor turned politician) -1988
Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous) (politician and former Prime Minister of India) -1991
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (Independence activist) - 1991
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous) (Independence activist) -1992
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai Tata (Industrialist) - 1992
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Independence activist and Prime Minister of India) - 1991
Satyajit Ray (Filmmaker) - 1992
Gulzari Lal Nanda (Independence activist) - 1997
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (Aerospace, defence scientist and former President of India) -1997
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (Carnatic classical vocalist) -1998
Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous) (Independence activist) - 1997
Chidambaram Subramaniam (Independence activist) - 1998
Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous) (Independence activist, social reformer) - 1999
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous) (Independence activist) - 1999
Ravi Shankar (sitar player) - 1999
Amartya Sen (economist) - 1999
Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (playback singer) - 2001
Ustad Bismillah Khan (Hindustani classical shehnai player) - 2001
C. N. R. Rao (chemist and professor) - 2014
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (cricketer) - 2014
Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Hindustani classical vocalist) - 2009
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (politician and former Prime Minister of India) 2015
Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous) (Scholar and educational reformer) - 2015
Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (Posthumous) (playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, and film-maker) - 2019
Pranab Mukherjee (politician and former President of India) 2019
Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumous) (social activist) - 2019
Karpoori Thakur (Posthumous) (politician and former Bihar chief minister) - 2024
Lal Krishna Advani (politician and former deputy prime minister)- 2024
Chaudhary Charan Singh (Former prime minister) - 2024
LDr. MS Swaminathan (Father of the Green Revolution) - 2024
PV Narasimha Rao (Former prime minister) - 2024